Quotes About Perspective

For God's sake don't say yes until I've finished talking.

The beauty seen, is partly in him who sees it.

Before judging a person you have to know the story of his life.

La lanterne des autres ne sert qu'à nous égarer.

Regarde bien les arbres. Ils savent, comme nous, qu'ils doivent mourir un jour, mais ils ne pensent qu'à une chose : grandir, monter le plus haut possible.

From the isolated, individualistic perspective of most white evangelicals and many other Americans, there really is no race problem other than bad interpersonal relationships.

Another, more basic reason is that even being able to know or define in the first place what hurts or helps other people often itself requires reference to certain moral standards and understandings of what is good and bad.

I'm not an American but I have always had the outsiders' respect for the American people and the American way.

I don't let someone else's idea about what "40," or "50," or "60," or any other number means inform how I see myself.

thought held long enough and repeated enough becomes a belief.

If you think about problems instead of solutions and opportunities, your problems expand.

Si on veut rester content il ne faut pas voir le monde.

The eye cannot always be trusted. We think what we see is always real, that the light always reveals what is there the same way at all times. But light and shadow can be manipulated, directed, by those that understand it... And so your eye perceives something entirely different from what you thought was there.

It is arrogance to believe you can know all things. Perhaps you are right. But perhaps you are not.

No, I never thought about my father's money as my money.

If I say "yes" won't this change the order of the world?

I'm turning 30 years old this year ... it's better than 20, I'll tell you that. The lessons I've learned.

So is it just human nature to believe that things happen for a reason — to find some shred of meaning even in the worst experiences?" Molly asks when Vivian reads some of these stories aloud. "It certainly helps," Vivian says.

Every decision I make is determined solely by the spark and limitations of my own perspective

How quickly, with a slight twist in perception, do people's strengths become flaws!)

Time constricts and flattens, you know. It's not evenly weighted. Certain moments linger in the mind and others disappear. The first twenty-three years of my life are the ones that shaped me, and the fact that I've lived almost seven decades since then is irrelevant.

Time constricts and flattens, you know. It's not evenly weighted. Certain moments linger in the mind and others disappear. The first twenty-three years of my life are the ones that shaped me, and the fact that I've lived almost seven decades since then is irrelevant. Those years have nothing to do with the questions you ask.

Some memories are realities and are better than anything that can ever happen to one again." Maybe so, I think. Maybe my memories of sweeter times are vivid enough, and present enough, to overcome the disappointments that followed. And to sustain me through the rest.

I read once that the act of observing changes the nature of what is observed.